Craig E. Ferrin
Introduction
Course Overview
 Listening to the Fundamental Elements of Music
 Listening to Music with Words
 Listening to Referential Music
 Listening to Absolute Music
 Listening to Music of Non-Western Cultures
 Listening to the Music of Western Civilization
Unit 1: Listening to the
Fundamental Elements of Music
Elements of
Sound
Duration
Pitch
Volume
Timbre
Elements of
Music
Rhythm
Melody
Harmony
Dynamics
Form
Timbre
Texture
Synthesis
Style
Instruments
Ensembles
Unit 2: Listening to Music with
Words
Popular Song
Monophonic Chant
Early Polyphony
Opera
Oratorio
Cantata
Unit 3: Listening to Referential
Music
Folk Music
Poetry
Dancing
Ballet
Programmatic Music
Stage and Film
(titles)
Unit 4: Listening to Absolute Music
Instrumental Solo Music
Concerto
Chamber Music
Symphony
Experimental Music
Avante Garde’
(titles)
Unit 5: Listening to Music of NonWestern Cultures
Africa
Orient
Middle East
Oceana
Indigenous Western Hemisphere
Unit VI: Listening to the Music of
Western Civilization
Antiquity (Before 400 AD)
Middle Ages (400-1400)
Renaissance (1400-1600)
Baroque Era (1600-1750)
Classical Era (1750-1827)
Romantic Era (1800-1900)
Modern Era (1900-Present)
The Future?
Antiquity
Before 400 CE
Sumerians
Babylonians
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Greeks
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Hebrews
Oral Tradition (Aural Tradition)
 Mouth to Ear
Middle Ages (Medeival Era)
400-1400 CE
Council of Nicea
325
Unification of Christianity
Christianity established in the Roman Empire
Charlemagne (768-814)
Norman Conquest (1066)
The Crusades (1096-1270)
The Black Plagues (1300s)
Music
Monophonic Chant
Mass
Hildegard von Bingen (1098-1179) use website
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/med/hildegarde.ht
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"Beata Nobis Gaudia" by Hildegard von Bingen
Music
Polyphony
Organum
Cantus Firmus
Magnus Liber Organi
Leonin (1163-1190)
Perotin the Great (ca. 1200)
"Leonin-Perotin: Repons: Et
Valde, Organum À Deux
Voix”
Music
Troubadours
Trouveres
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BZwuTo7zKM8&feature
=PlayList&p=52C7B8620EDCB464&index=7 (Brave Sir
Robin)
Minniesingers
Minstrels
Guillaume de Machaut
"Agnus Dei" by Guillaume de Machaut
The Renaissance (1400-1600)
“Rebirth”
Florence
VIP Very Important People
 Copernicus (1473-1453)
 Calileo Galilei (1564-1642)
 Botticelli (1445-1510)
 Michelangelo (1475-1564)
 Leonardo DaVinci (1452-1519)
 William Shakespeare (1564-1616)
 Niccolo Machiavelli (1469-1527)
 Martin Luther (1483-1546)
 Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Major Events
 Johannes Gutenburg (1400-1468)
 Gutenberg Press (1440)
 Ottaviano Petrucci (1466–1539)
 Harmonice Musices Odhecaton (1501)
 Discovery of the Western Hemisphere (1492)
 Protestant Reformation (1517) (need picture of Luther and the
Wittenburg Cathedral)
 Defeat of the Spanish Armada (1588)
Music
 Polyphony
 Imitative Polyphony
 Mass
 Motet
 Magdrigal
VIM Very Important Musicians
 Josquin des Prez (ca. 1440–1521)
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"Ave Maria" by Josquin des Prez
 Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina (1525-1594)
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"Sicut cervus" by Giovanni da Palestrina
 Giovanni Gabrielli (ca. 1555-1613)
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"Canzon XII" by Giovanni Gabrieli
The Baroque Era (1600-1750)
 Advent of Opera (ca. 1600)
 Death of Johann Sebastian Bach (1750)
 Baroque
 Portuguese: Barroco

“Pearl of irregular or bulbous shape” (Palisca)
Major Events
 Colonization and Imperialism
 Reign of Louis XIV
 Versailles
 Thirty Years War (1618-1648)
VIP Very Important People
 Johannes Keppler (1571-1630) (astronomy)
 William Harvey (1578-1657) (biology)
 Isaac Newton (1643-1727) (gravity)
 Antonio Stadivari (1644-1737)
 Perfected the violin
VIM Very Important Musicians
Claudio Monteverdi (1567–1643)
Johann Sebastian Bach (1685-1750)
Henry Purcell (1659-1695)
Arcangelo Corelli (1653-1713)
Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741)
Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687)
Francois Couperin (1668-1733)
Jean-Philippe Rameau (1683-1764)
Gerg Phillip Teleman (1681-1767)
George Frederic Handel (1685-1759)
Music Genre
Concerto
Concerto Grosso
Opera
Oratorio
Cantata
Dance Suite
Music
'When I am laid in earth' from "Dido and Aeneus" by
Henry Purcell
"Allegro" by Arcangelo Corelli
"La primavera - Spring con 1 in E Major" by Antonio
Vivaldi
"Ballet for the Sun King: Ouverture" by Jean-Baptiste
Lully
"Courante" by Francois Couperin
"Air gracieux" by Jean-Philippe Rameau
"Gigue" by Johann Sebastian Bach
"We Praise Thee, Oh God" by George Frideric Handel
The Classical Era (1750-1825)
 1750 Death of Bach, Handel, Vivaldi
 1825 Death of Beethoven, Schubert
 A Time of great social change
Major Events
 American Revolution
 French Revolution
 Napoleonic Wars
 Beginning of the Industrial Revolution
Age of Invention
 Eli Whitney: Cotton Gin
 James Watt: Steam Engine
 Edward Jenner: Small Pox Vaccination
 Benjamin Franklin: Harnessing Electricity
 Bartolomeo Christofori: Piano
Music
 Formal Structures
 Without external reference
 Musician Independence -- $
Classical Genre
 Concerto
 Sonata
 String Quartet
 Symphony
 Opera
Centered in Vienna
 Franz Joseph Haydn (1732-1809) (nobility)
 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (1756-1791) (nobility—
independence but…)
 Marriage of Figaro
 Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) (made it!$$)
 Franz Peter Schubert (1797-1828) (after death)

Erlkonig
Romantic Era (1800-1900)
 Aftermath of Napoleonic Wars

Democracy or Monarchy
 Imperialism
 Industrial Revolution
 Factories
 Steam Manufacturing
Social Changes
 On the Origin of Species
 The Communist Manifesto
 Nationalism
Music
 Emotional underpinnings
 Beethoven: Symphony No. 3 (1803 – ‘Eroica’ -transitional figure)
 Formal structures broadened
 Nationalism
Musicians
France
Hector Berlioz
Georges Bizet
Germany
Richard Wagner
Felix Mendelssohn
Robert Schumann
Johannes Brahms
Gustav Mahler
Musicians
Hungary
Franz Liszt
Poland
Frederic Chopin
Bohemia
Biedrich Smetana
Antonin Dvorak
Russia
Peter Tchaikovsky
Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
Italy
Guiseppe Verdi
Selected Music Examples
 "Symphonie Fantastique - IV: March To The Scaffold" by Hector
Berlioz
"Carmen: Habanera & Seguidille" by Georges Bizet
"A minor, Op. 54 - I: Allegro affetuoso" by Robert Schumann
"Hungarian Dance No.5 In G Minor" by Johannes Brahms
"Die Walkure: Ride Of The Valkyries" by Richard Wagner
"Nocturne No. 2 in E flat major, Op. 9 No. 2" by Frederic Chopin
"Symphony No. 9 in E Minor, Op. 95: II. Largo (excerpt)" by
Antonin Dvorak
"The Bartered Bride - Overture" by Bedrich Smetana
"Symphony No. 4 in F Minor, Op. 36: IV. Finale (Allegro con
fuoco)" by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
"Capricho Espanol Op. 34" by Nicolai Rimsky-Korsakov
"Otello: Act 1: Inaffia l'ugola" by Guiseppe Verdi
The Modern Era (1900-Present)
 A Century of Great Change
 Transportation

Horses to Space Travel
 Communication
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Telephone
Television
Satelites
Internet
Medicine
Social Change
 World War I
 Bolshevik Revolution
 The Great Depression
 World War II
 Cold War
 Cultural Revolution of the 1960’s
 War on Terror
Music
 Impressionism
 Expressionism
 Modernism
 Neo-Classicism
 Serialism
 Jazz
 Tango
Popular Music
"Five Piano Pieces, Op. 23 - Walzer (Waltz)" by Arnold
Schoenberg
"Stompin' At The Savoy" by Benny Goodman
"All I Ask of You" by Andrew Lloyd-Weber
"Something's Coming" from "West Side Story" by
Leonard Bernstein
"Do-Re-Mi" from "The Sound of Music" by Richard
Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein
"Javert's Suicide" from "Les Miserables" by ClaudeMichael Schonberg and Alain Boublil
"Ain't She Sweet" by The Beatles
"Hound Dog" by Elvis Presley
Art Music
 \"Voiles" by Claude Debussy
"Symph. No. 5: I. Trauermarsch" by Gustav Mahler
"The Rite Of Spring: Part I - The Adoration of the
Earth - Dance of the Adolescents" by Igor Stravinsky
"Heftig bewegt" by Anton Webern
"Scene 3 - Tavern" from "Wozzeck" by Alban Berg
"Fanfare for the Common Man" by Aaron Copland
"Rhapsody In Blue" by George Gershwin
"Raiders March" by John Williams
"First Interlude" by John Cage
"Short Ride in a Fast Machine" by John Adams
Art Music Composers
 Claude Debussy
 Igor Stranvinsky
 Arnold Schoenberg
 Aaron Copland
 George Gershwin
 John Williams
 John Cage
 John Adams
The Future
 Continued technological change
 Electronics
 Communication
 Music researchers
The Educated Consumer
The Opportunity to Choose